“For the foregoing reasons, we hold that some aspects of
the defendant’s speech pose a significant and imminent risk to
the fair and orderly adjudication of this criminal proceeding,
which justified protective action by the district court. We
affirm in part and vacate in part the district court’s Order to best accommodate the competing constitutional interests at
stake, as required by Landmark Communications.”
Affirmed: “Specifically, we affirm the Order to the extent it prohibits all parties and their counsel from making or directing others to make public statements about known or reasonably foreseeable witnesses concerning their potential participation in the investigation or in this criminal proceeding.”
Everything else vacated.
“Affirmed: “Specifically, we affirm the Order to the extent it prohibits all parties and their counsel from making or directing others to make public statements about known or reasonably foreseeable witnesses concerning their potential participation in the investigation or in this criminal proceeding.””
Not being a lawyer then I would need examples to understand exactly what that means.
He can't say -- "It would be a really bad idea for Bill to show up and testify -- especially if he would say that he saw me with the stolen jewels."
Seems a sensible distinction.